Educational

Songs: Music Rocks!, Gotta Be Jazz, We're All in This Together (from High School Musical), Listen to Me, Dancin' Shoes; It's a Musical World: Mayim, Mayim (from Israel); Listening: Mozart; Spotlight: High School Musical.

Here is the latest in Cheryl Lavender's popular series of Bingo games! This collection of enjoyable, hands-on activities is designed to help students in grades 4-8 identify, describe and compare 24 different styles of music from Folk to Classical and from Heavy Metal to New Age and lots more in between! While having fun playing the game, students will collaborate to learn the origins of music styles, investigate cultural and historic influences, discover how music styles evolve, and make meaningful connections among different styles of music. In addition to the traditional Bingo game, MUSIC STYLES BINGO also includes a variety of alternate games; Music Styles Map, Music Styles Recall and Music Styles Assessment. The Game/CD Pak comes complete with 30 player cards, 4 Sound Sequence Cards, a helpful Educator's Guide and the professionally-produced CD recording of music styles excerpts. For Grades 4-8.

Music Symbol Bingo is an enjoyable, motivational game which your students can play to reinforce recognition and identification of 24 of the most common music symbols and terms used in the elementary music class. Based on the traditional Bingo game, it promotes an active learning environment and involves all of your students! Music Symbol Bingo is age-appropriate for both lower and upper elementary music students with two levels of play. For younger players, Side A of each card features 24 symbols with their corresponding musical term. Side B introduces more advanced terminology for older students. Comes complete with 30 reversible Player Cards with Level A (beginning) on one side, and Level B (intermediate) on the other side, and 1 sheet of 24, reversible cut-out Caller Cards. For Grades 3-8.

Do you teach music to hundreds of kids each week and have to keep track of a stack of seating charts, class lists and lesson plans? Here's the music planner for you - with everything under one cover! This one-of-a-kind resource is packed with helpful charts, calendars, & ideas to help you stay organized and plan ahead for the whole school year. Highlights include: 40 weekly lesson plan charts, 10 monthly calendars with Music Fast Facts, seating charts for general music and choirs, and over 40 special music activities. In addition, there are reproducible forms for student information, class list charts, assessments rubrics based on the National Standards and lesson descriptions. Don't start a new school year without this handy music planner!

Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythm, pitch and harmony with this easy-to-use book/CD pack. Learn the universal language used by all musicians, regardless of instrument. Includes concise, detailed explanations, illustrations and written exercises with a full CD of examples and practice drills. This book will teach you how to: construct scales, chords and intervals identify major and minor key centers and common chord progressions accurately play various rhythm feels and figures learn the basic principles of form and compositional analysis.

Did you hear? Music W.O.R.K.S.! It does, that is, if you have the right tools to use with your students. This 'musical tool chest' is all about what W.O.R.K.S - Warm-Ups, Ostinati, Rounds and Kid's Songs. Within these pages, you'll find many resources needed to build young musicians and a successful presentation. There are eight programmable songs, in addition to a warm-up, ostinati and round to vocally prepare for each song. Use all these ideas together to create a production or offer them separately for in-class learning fun. Accompany them on the piano or use the convenient and quality accompaniment CD for hands-free teaching - there are so many choices. But wait! There's even more. The W section includes warm-ups to help students remember educational things, and warm-ups for everyday use. The O section presents ostinati for instruments, body percussion and voices. The R section includes rounds for general use with optional Orff accompaniment as well as teaching and performance suggestions. Don't start the school year without these valuable tools, and keep your students learning and loving music all year long! You'll see - it works! Available: Resource Collection (with reproducible pages), Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (collection and P/A CD. 24 Warm-ups, 16 Ostinati, 14 Rounds, 8 songs. For Grades 3-6.

Did you hear? Music W.O.R.K.S.! It does, that is, if you have the right tools to use with your students. This 'musical tool chest' is all about what W.O.R.K.S - Warm-Ups, Ostinati, Rounds and Kid's Songs. Within these pages, you'll find many resources needed to build young musicians and a successful presentation. There are eight programmable songs, in addition to a warm-up, ostinati and round to vocally prepare for each song. Use all these ideas together to create a production or offer them separately for in-class learning fun. Accompany them on the piano or use the convenient and quality accompaniment CD for hands-free teaching - there are so many choices. But wait! There's even more. The W section includes warm-ups to help students remember educational things, and warm-ups for everyday use. The O section presents ostinati for instruments, body percussion and voices. The R section includes rounds for general use with optional Orff accompaniment as well as teaching and performance suggestions. Don't start the school year without these valuable tools, and keep your students learning and loving music all year long! You'll see - it works! Available: Resource Collection (with reproducible pages), Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (collection and P/A CD. 24 Warm-ups, 16 Ostinati, 14 Rounds, 8 songs. For Grades 3-6.

Did you hear? Music W.O.R.K.S.! It does, that is, if you have the right tools to use with your students. This 'musical tool chest' is all about what W.O.R.K.S - Warm-Ups, Ostinati, Rounds and Kid's Songs. Within these pages, you'll find many resources needed to build young musicians and a successful presentation. There are eight programmable songs, in addition to a warm-up, ostinati and round to vocally prepare for each song. Use all these ideas together to create a production or offer them separately for in-class learning fun. Accompany them on the piano or use the convenient and quality accompaniment CD for hands-free teaching - there are so many choices. But wait! There's even more. The W section includes warm-ups to help students remember educational things, and warm-ups for everyday use. The O section presents ostinati for instruments, body percussion and voices. The R section includes rounds for general use with optional Orff accompaniment as well as teaching and performance suggestions. Don't start the school year without these valuable tools, and keep your students learning and loving music all year long! You'll see - it works! Available: Resource Collection (with reproducible pages), Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (collection and P/A CD. 24 Warm-ups, 16 Ostinati, 14 Rounds, 8 songs. For Grades 3-6.